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Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea, a 2016 book telling the story of Sungju Lee, a defector who grew up as an orphan in North Korea. Fortune Smiles , a book of short stories by Adam Johnson whose title story features two defectors adjusting to life in Seoul.
Kim Byeong-uk, a fellow North Korean defector and the founder of the North Korean Development Institute, has said that Park's stories about life in North Korea are unreliable, telling The Korea Times that Park "exaggerated her past experiences and the way of the North, probably because she wanted to be at the center of attention."
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable defectors from North Korea to South Korea. In total, as of 2016, 31,093 North Korean defectors had entered South Korea. By 2020 the number had grown to about 33,000. The dates shown below are the dates that the ...
Lee, 38, a North Korean defector and former soldier now living in South Korea, said it is “devastating” to see troops from the reclusive, communist-ruled North being sent abroad by leader Kim ...
Ji Seong-ho, 35, a North Korean defector who appeared at President Trump's State of the Union address this week shared his story with Reuters.
More than 100 North Koreans have gone missing after being caught by secret police while trying to defect from the isolated country or even for trying to call relatives in South Korea, a Seoul ...
North Korea continued to abduct South Koreans into the 2000s, as is shown by the cases of the Reverend Kim Dong-shik (Korean: 김동식), who was abducted on January 16, 2000, [6] and Jin Gyeong-suk (Korean: 진경숙), a North Korean defector to South Korea who was abducted on August 8, 2004, when she had returned to the China-North Korea ...
New details have emerged on the 24-year-old North Korean defector who made it across the North Korean border and into South Korea under a hail of gunfire.